The traditional view of electricity distribution is that it is a natural monopoly. Few authors have explored the question as to whether electricity distributors truly are natural monopolies or not, while observation of the current industrial practice tends to suggest that a "market" for distribution activities does actually exist. This is a paradox for a natural monopoly. Our explanation is that monopoly characteristics well characterise the network infrastructure, but not the network operation service.
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Volume (Year): 16 (2008) Issue (Month): 4 (December) Pages: 231-237 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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